Chip multicore processors (CMPs) have emerged as the dominant architecture choice for
modern computing platforms and will most likely continue to be dominant well into the …

H01L25/18—Assemblies consisting of a plurality of individual semiconductor or other solid
state devices; Multistep manufacturing processes thereof the devices being of types …

Data movement between the CPU and main memory is a first-order obstacle against improv
ing performance, scalability, and energy efficiency in modern systems. Computer systems …

Is your memory hierarchy stopping your microprocessor from performing at the high level it
should be? Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk shows you how to resolve this problem …

Three-dimensional integration enables stacking memory directly on top of a microprocessor,
thereby significantly reducing wire delay between the two. Previous studies have examined …

In a modern chip-multiprocessor system, memory is a shared resource among multiple
concurrently executing threads. The memory scheduling algorithm should resolve memory …

Main memory, composed of DRAM, is a performance bottleneck for many applications, due
to the high DRAM access latency. In-DRAM caches work to mitigate this latency by …

Efficiently utilizing off-chip DRAM bandwidth is a critical issuein designing cost-effective,
high-performance chip multiprocessors (CMPs). Conventional memory controllers deliver …

Modern chip multiprocessor (CMP) systems employ multiple memory controllers to control
access to main memory. The scheduling algorithm employed by these memory controllers …

In a chip-multiprocessor (CMP) system, the DRAM system isshared among cores. In a
shared DRAM system, requests from athread can not only delay requests from other threads …